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MED Power Plant Solutions is the department accountable for value engineering, contractual risk management, execution & product management on grid connection & plant control solutions in Vestas power plants along the full project value chain (Development, Sales, Construction and Service stages) in Mediterranean Region, including South European, African, Middle Eastern countries.
Responsibilities
Grid Connection Codes scouting & interpretations and communication with System Operators in Southern & Eastern Africa's countries with special focus on South Africa
- Input Grid related market requirements to Vestas R&D ensuring future compliance and effectiveness of Plant offerings
Coordinate technical support to Sales Dept. during contract negotiation and bid definition in relation to electrical and grid requirements (both plant grid performances & electrical models) in order to comply with the applicable standards and technical specifications of the customer
- Participation in team selling approach and building value in each individual project and different customer profiles
- Technical review of the customers' tender documentation and related risk mitigation on project specific basis
- Define business case optimization and value engineering initiatives for Grid Plant offerings
- Contractual Annexes preparation
Coordinate technical support to the Project Manager during the construction phase in relation to project specific electrical and grid solutions implementation
- Define the technical implementation of the plant control system allowing the grid compliance of the plants
- Define Plant Grid Compliance Tests
Technical meetings with customers, contractors, grid operators & utilities
Qualificatios
- M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems or B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering/Power Systems
- 7+ years of relevant work experience from System Operators (like ESKOM or RETEC) or wind industry
- Knowledge about grid connection code requirements
- Knowledge about HV, MV equipment and Substation design
- Knowledge about power system stability, control and analysis
- Knowledge about Power Quality assessment
- Knowledge about electrical simulation SW like PSS-E, Power Factory will be valuable.
- Knowledge about Energy Market in South Africa.
- English language, both written and spoken.
Competencies
- Ability to network and influence with Grid Operators, ensuring Vestas products ability to comply with existing and coming grid codes.
- Good technical skills with emphasis in problem solving.
- Ability to summarize technical topics for non-technical stakeholders.
- Creative solution finding and high degree of motivation to satisfy customer needs.
- Highly structured and well organized.
- Good travel disposition (about 15% of time) in support of customer needs and overall business needs.
- We need a person with a high personal motivation, structured and service minded work style, result oriented, able to work both with little supervision and with an international team.
- Able to balance responsibilities and prioritize daily work under a hard-working environment.
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Bid Management is, within Construction Department, responsible to ensure effective construction bids in alignment with customers' expectations/tenders specifications.
Reporting to the Regional Bid Manager, the Bid Specialist is an integral part of the Bid Management team that will work in collaboration with Construction team and Vestas functions to ensure alignment between the bids/tenders, the clients' expectations and Vestas targets for all projects/contracts performed in South Africa and in the overall region.
Responsibilities
- Carry out Construction bid response and take lead on construction scope in contract negotiation;
- Assess construction scope and prepare tactical plan through internal project management in Operations with relevant functional areas for proposal engage with customers to optimize construction proposal and provide clarification;
- Budgeting and planning projects in collaboration with Construction sub departments (Project Management, Planning, Installation, BOP) and with other Vestas functions (Sales, Procurement, Transport, Technology...) ensuring industry standard cost alignment within the project strategy and business constraints;
- Ensure approved construction budget (OPEC) and project programme to be included with proposal;
- Maintain overview of major construction risks during sales phase. Implement lessons learned from previous projects;
- Reporting, analysis and evaluation of post & precalc results to optimize cost and profitability of Vestas projects;
- Contract Execution Package (CEP) approval in collaboration with Sales Management and supporting the Regional Head of Construction within the CEP approval process;
- Support business improvement initiatives to ensure high quality & value added solutions
- Development, participation in the development of new construction processes: boosting plans, platform creation etc...in order to find adequate opportunities for Vestas and Vestas' customers.
Qualifications
- Technical degree in Engineering, construction, logistics or similar
- Relevant Project Management related certification (PMP or other similar).
- Minimum 3 to 5 year experience in Project Management in the energy sector, renewables preferred.
- Commercial understanding and experience in working with bids and negotiations
- Fluent in English and second European language will be ranked (French, Portuguese, Spanish).
- MS Excel, DDBB, Power BI computer skills
Competencies
- Skills in business understanding and information/data analysis, as well as good negotiation skills
- Good organization and interpersonal skills as well as solid communication and negotiation capabilities
- Outgoing and innovative
- Ability to adapt to an ever-growing environment.
- Capacity to prioritize multiple projects and adjust workload accordingly.
- Risk management, problem solving and judgment capabilities.
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The Construction Department oversees all wind farm projects from start to completion. The team takes responsibility for a wind farm once a contract has been signed and remains responsible until the final tests are completed. Working closely with the sales, legal, logistics, procurement and finance departments, the construction team must keep the project on budget, on schedule and to ensure our optimal safety and quality standards are met.
Responsibilities
- Reporting to the Head of Construction the main responsibilities are:
- Full project life cycle ownership
- Work creatively and strategically demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
- Coordinate the day-to-day project activities and resources and chairs the project management team meetings
- Provide status reporting regarding project milestones, deliverable, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership
- Assist in dispute, negotiation, arbitration or litigation, as needed
- Monitor, track and control outcomes to resolve issues, conflicts, dependencies and critical path deliverables
- Coach, mentor, motivate and supervise project and program team
- Extensive understanding of project and program management principles, methods and techniques
- Performance reviews and staff development
- Monitor the performance of staff
Qualifications
- Engineering degree in Mechanical, Electrical or Civil. Master's in project management, MBA will be also welcomed.
- At least 9+ years of experience in project management teams and construction, preferably acquired in the wind industry or in the energy sector.
- Experience in installation and EPC contracts. International experience will be a considered as an asset.
- Financial and Contract Management skills
- Skilled proficiency in spoken and written English
Competencies
- Coaching
- Leadership skills
- Proactive
- High flexibility
- Problem solving-oriented,
- Customer and Business oriented
- Self-management
- Cross Functional leadership skills
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The position will be based in Waainek Wind Farm (Waainek Wind Farm is located 6 km South West of Grahamstown, along the Highlands Road in the Makana Municipality) within the EC region. The Wind farm consists of 8 X V112 3.0755MW turbines, installed capacity of 24.6MW.
Responsibilities:
- Delivery of services on an operational level with respect to process adherence, service quality, safety standards and performance ensured
- Assigned staff is supervised/led/coordinated and a positive and effective working relationship is established / maintained
- People skills development, competencies and training actions are managed including safety related (Safety walks / talks)
- Compliance with Vestas standards across the dedicated site and processes, procedures and / or tools implemented continuously
- Ensures obeying regional laws and regulations
- Resource availability given to perform dedicated work orders
- Daily management of dedicated staff and resolve issues with external service provider, customers and internal stakeholders
- Implement defined function specific processes, procedures and/or tools
- Monitor technician's performance and task execution to ensure effective cost control
- Approve work performed and technician timesheets
- Processes technician requests for planned absence
- Manage service crew composition (medium / long term)
- Monitor and track site performance and continuously improve
- Perform inductions for contractors
- Approve working hours of the technicians and sub-contractors weekly timesheets
- ED Monthly reporting/people data
- Provide 1st level technical support to the technicians
- Complete reports and paperwork as required by Management
Qualifications:
- Post-Matric Engineering qualification (National higher Diploma, National Diploma, Trade Test, BTech or equivalent as a minimum),
- Minimum 3 years Wind industry work experience
Competencies:
- Ability to work independently,
- Excellent communication skills in both oral and written English; additional local language skills are an advantage,
- Ability to work efficiently with Microsoft Office software and SAP ERP.
- Willingness to travel
- Strong wind turbine technical acumen,
- Driver's license.
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Region MED>SBU MED Service>Account Management Africa
Service Sales Department in the SBU-Service is responsible for (a) defining Targets for the business cluster (b) Customer engagement for upselling service packages and upgrades (c) Regular customer interactions for future business prospectus (d) negotiating business "Head of Terms" and detailed obligatory services as in binding Agreements for Long Term durations (e) Very importantly working closely with Turbine Sales Department and complimenting support function for the global Turbine sales.
Responsibilities:
- Commercial Quotations for New Service Agreements during Turbine selling process
- Renewal / Amendment of ongoing Service Contracts
- Reporting and seeking Approval process as to Vestas Compliance
- Customer clarifications for scope and obligations
- Inter-departmental alignment for ensuring effective sales co-ordination functions
Qualifications:
- Diploma / Degree Business Management & Engineering with 2 to 3 years of past experience in similar category of job responsibilities
- It can be a Dual degree or one completed after the other at different points in the career
Competencies:
- Business insight
- Attitude towards collaboration with inter-departments within Vestas
- Continuous learning attitude on Vestas process and compliance requirements
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